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Associate Professor Naomi Barnes is an education researcher at Queensland University of Technology. Her research interests focus on education crises, specifically curriculum making for crises. She currently works on a number of research projects, including: teachers' and school leaders' work as first responders to crisis, how commercial curriculum resources impact teachers’ work, and how digital humanities methodologies can transform how we understand teachers' work. She has worked as a curriculum writer for government departments, secondary schools and higher education learning and teaching projects. Naomi has recently co-edited the International Handbook of Schooling in Times of Crisis (2026) and a special section in Critical Studies in Education on the Politics of Education Online (2025). She brings experience as a former secondary school teacher and Head of Humanities and Social Science Curriculum to her research.